... as a result of generations of betrayal, it's nearly impossible for Southern Negroes to trust a Southern white. No matter what ...he does or what he suffers, a white liberal is never established beyond suspicion in the hearts of the minority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Zeb Calloway: This child's seen a heap of Injuns and most of this country. She's big and wild, colder than hell ... the Tetons sta...ndin' higher than the clouds. By beaver, there's nothin' prettier than the upper Missouri. She's wild and pretty like a virgin woman. But the prettiest part of it all belongs to her people--Blackfeet--proud Injuns. Ain't gonna let no white men spy on their country. Only thing they're feared of is a white man's sickness. Jim Deakins: What's that? Zeb: Grabs. White men don't see nothin' pretty lest they wants to grab it. The more they grab, the more they wanna grab. It's like a fever, and they can't get cured. The only thing for them to do is keep on grabbin' until everything belongs to white men and then start grabbin' from each other. Can't reckon Injuns got no reason to love nothin' white. By beaver, this child'd rather be in that Black Feet country than anywheres else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I am who I am because I'm a black female.... When I was health director in Arkansas ... I could talk about teen-age pregnancy, ...about poverty, ignorance and enslavement and how the white power structure had imposed it--only because I was a black female. I mean, black people would have eaten up a white male who said what I did.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not like forced integration.... I do not like forced anything.... as a youngster I lived in a white neighborhood with a white... neighbor next door. We would go to them, they would go to us. If they had anything, we had it. We lived just like one. We didn't think about no integration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black ...mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me acr...oss space I shall never fully know. But the moon that pulls the tides, and the moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist.... When we describe the moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »